In the Midwest.

Fast-food Hostage Drama

May 30, 1996|By Gary Borg.

BELLEVUE, WISCONSIN — A fast-food worker held a teenage co-worker at gunpoint overnight, released her Wednesday after 10 hours and finally surrendered to authorities as a SWAT team moved in six hours later.

Television news film shot through the Burger King windows showed the man holding a pistol to the hostage's head and pulling her around the restaurant during the standoff that forced the four-lane Monroe Road to be closed to traffic.

The hostage, a 17-year-old assistant manager, was released about 10 a.m.

The 19-year-old man was taken into custody after walking outside about 4 p.m. Wednesday, said Lt. Keith Carlson of the Brown County Sheriff's Department. He was being held pending formal charges. His name wasn't immediately released.